I found a cell phone from ten years ago.

Chapter 118 New Books Available on Palm Games Technology
In the next few days, Li Xu continued to be busy looking for an office building, recruiting employees, reviewing for the exam, and practicing driving.

During this period, he also took two exams, English and Ideological and Political Theory.

After looking at several office buildings, Li Xu finally rented a 70-square-meter office in the Yishi Building in Xinjiekou as the office of Zhangyou Technology.

The Senate Building is a 23-story old office building located at the intersection of Xinjiekou and Confucius Temple. It not only has extremely convenient transportation, but also has a complete range of surrounding supporting facilities.

It’s just a little far from Yingcai College, about 16 or 17 kilometers, and it takes about half an hour to drive there.

Li Xu had thought about finding an office building closer to the school, but the better office buildings in Jiangning were either in Xinjiekou, Gulou, or Jiangbei New District.

Jiangbei New District is even farther away.

After interviewing five or six people, Li Xu finally found a suitable candidate for the assistant/driver position.

She is a girl named Zhao Ying, who just turned 19 this year. Although she is young, she has been working for three or four years.

He has a low level of education, having only graduated from junior high school, but he has a down-to-earth personality, is able to endure hardships, and is quite motivated.

When I was working in a factory, I used my spare time to learn how to drive and I am also taking the self-study college entrance examination.

Zhao Ying came for the interview mainly because she was attracted by the job information, which stated that the job would have plenty of spare time, which she could arrange freely. This way, she could use her spare time to study on her own and pass the self-study exam to get a college diploma as soon as possible.

Meals are provided and there is no requirement for driving experience.

Generally, when recruiting drivers, there are requirements for driving experience, which means at least one year of driving experience. It is rare to see a case like Li Xu where there is no requirement for driving experience at all.

In fact, the salary offered by Li Xu was not high. The recruitment information said 2500-4000, which was actually 2500. There was also a one-month internship period, and the internship salary was only 2000.

The so-called free meals means giving Zhao Ying a meal card of Yingcai College, so that she can eat in the school cafeteria. She has a food allowance of 500 yuan per month. If it is not enough, she has to pay for it herself.

But she has a lot of work to do. Not only does she have to drive for Li Xu, but she also has to learn how to shoot videos from Liu Xin. It is like she is doing the work of two people while getting one salary.

As for the staff of Zhangyou Technology, they have almost been recruited. Li Xu also recruited a game artist, a senior programmer who has worked for more than three years, and a newcomer who has worked for more than half a year.

Including a game planner hired previously, the company currently has four employees, and we are still short of a game development engineer who has not been recruited yet.

This position is quite important. It is responsible for game development and overall coordination. Li Xu plans to recruit people slowly.

Saturday, January 1th.

Kangqiao Sanfei Community.

It was not even 7 o'clock in the morning when Li Xu was woken up by the alarm clock. He opened his eyes and looked at the strange yet familiar room. He was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses.

After his mortgage was approved yesterday morning, he went to the Housing Authority with the original owner and the agent in the afternoon to complete the house transfer procedures and got the keys.

Although it will take another half a month to get the property title, this 52-square-meter house is already under Li Xu's name, and now he can be considered a person who owns both a house and a car.

After getting dressed, Li Xu went to the bathroom to wash up briefly, then went out, took the elevator downstairs, and went to the community to start his morning run.

This community consists of five-story garden houses with a high greening rate. In addition, Xianlin University Town is far away from the city, so the air in the morning is particularly fresh.

Li Xu jogged in the community for about 15 minutes, about three or four kilometers, and then stopped.

He left the complex from the east gate and went to the breakfast shop outside, where he bought some buns, fried dough sticks, fried eggs and soy milk for breakfast.

After returning home, Li Xu put the breakfast he bought on the dining table in the living room, sat down and started eating breakfast.

He had moved in last night and hadn't had time to clean up the house yet, so it looked a bit messy. However, the previous owner had left behind the basic furniture and appliances, so everything was still quite complete.

Li Xu planned to pick up Luo Jiahui in the afternoon after he finished his work this morning, and leave the layout of the house and the purchase of necessary items to her.

After eating two or three buns, a fried egg and drinking a cup of soy milk for breakfast, Li Xu came to the second bedroom and sat down at the desk.

This second bedroom is very small, only six or seven square meters. Li Xu plans to use this small room as a study, where he can speculate in gold and write in the future.

Even in front of Luo Jiahui, he had to pretend and stay in this room for several hours every night, pretending to type.

Li Xu opened his laptop, went to the writer section, and looked at the first order of "Daogui".

"The Taoist Immortal" was put on the shelves on Friday the 7th, which was yesterday at noon, and the first order results were much better than he expected.

Less than 24 hours after it was put on the shelves, the first order had reached 1, with a subscription-to-receipt ratio of 4:. This result is not much different from when "Mysterious" was put on the shelves.

Such good results are due, on the one hand, to the fact that the quality of "Daogui" is indeed very good, and on the other hand, it is due to the added bonus of popularity accumulated by Li Xu after he became a great god.

If he was just a new author when he wrote "The Secret", he would never have achieved such good results.

After updating three chapters of "Daogui", Li Xu exited the writer's area and closed his laptop.

Among these three chapters, two are added for the alliance leader, and one is added for the monthly ticket.

"Daogui" will have 10 updates on the first day of release, and then there will be at least three updates every day. Two chapters will be added for each leader who appears, and one chapter will be added for every 500 monthly tickets.

The average subscription of "Daogui" has exceeded 10,000, and it exceeded 10,000 on the first day of being put on the shelves. This result can be said to be extremely dazzling, and even few great authors can achieve it.

Now he has two works with an average subscription of over 10,000. It is estimated that within a few months, Qidian will ask him to sign a platinum author contract.

Thinking of this, Li Xu pulled out a drawer on the left side of the desk completely, then pressed on the inside of the drawer. With a "click", a secret compartment popped out, revealing the Honor Magic 6 Pro.

This desk was customized by Li Xu in advance and is specifically used to store this mobile phone from the future.

The secret compartment is designed to be extremely delicate and thin, and can only hold such a mobile phone. You need to pull out the drawer completely and observe carefully to find the switch of the secret compartment. It is extremely hidden and difficult to be found.

Li Xu plans to replace the door in the next few days with a safer anti-theft door, and buy a small safe to put in the living room.

Put some real and fake cash, gold and jewelry in the safe. In this way, even if your home is really robbed, the thief's first target will most likely be the safe in the living room, and he will not search the room too carefully, thus reducing the risk of your phone being discovered.

He even plans to install surveillance cameras in the living room and second bedroom so that he can check the situation at home at any time even if he is outside.

Li Xu took out his mobile phone from the secret compartment, turned it on, opened the photo album, leaned back in his chair and started watching videos.

Ever since he got together with Luo Jiahui, he rarely watched videos. After all, those electronic girlfriends can only be seen but not touched, and how can they be compared with the beautiful girlfriends in real life.

What's more, although Luo Jiahui has many flaws, her appearance and figure are first-class. Few of the beautiful female anchors on mobile phones can compare with her.

After watching videos for about half an hour, the doorbell suddenly rang. Li Xu put the phone back into the secret compartment, closed the drawer, then got up and left the bedroom, went to the living room and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was a girl who was about 165cm tall, had short hair and a delicate appearance. She was Zhao Ying, Li Xu's newly hired assistant.

"Brother Xu!" Zhao Ying greeted Li Xu with a bit of restraint. "Xiaoying, you're here so early? Come in!" Li Xu said with a smile, stepping aside to let Zhao Ying into the house.

He told Zhao Ying to pick him up before 9 o'clock, but she arrived before 8:.

"Don't stand, sit down, just treat it as if you're at home." Seeing Zhao Ying standing awkwardly at the door after entering, Li Xu pointed to the sofa in the living room and motioned her to sit down.

The living room is quite small, and the sofa, dining table, coffee table and TV cabinet are a bit crowded.

Zhao Ying walked carefully to the sofa and sat down.

She had just had her job interview the afternoon before yesterday and had only known Li Xu for a day or two, so it was inevitable that she felt a little nervous and restrained in front of him.

"By the way, Xiaoying, have you had breakfast?" Li Xu asked again.

"I've eaten." Zhao Ying answered softly.

"It's okay if you've already eaten. Have some more. There are buns, fried dough sticks, and soy milk on the table. I just bought them. Go have some."

Li Xu said, pointing to the dining table next to the sofa.

"Don't be polite, go and eat. If it's cold, there's a microwave in the kitchen that can heat it up." Seeing Zhao Ying's hesitation and embarrassment, Li Xu urged her with a smile.

After hearing this, Zhao Ying slowly stood up and walked to the dining table.

"Take your time eating. I'm going to change my clothes." Li Xu said, then turned and walked into the master bedroom.

Zhao Ying is very down-to-earth and obedient, but she is rather introverted and reserved, and doesn't like to talk much.

After about ten minutes, Li Xu came out of the bedroom wearing a brown suit with a tweed coat draped over his arm.

Seeing Li Xu coming out, Zhao Ying hurriedly swallowed the uneaten bun in a few bites, drank another sip of soy milk, and stood up.

"Don't be in a hurry, take your time eating." Li Xu said to her with a smile.

He noticed that the bag of three buns and an egg left on the table had all been eaten, and he knew that Zhao Ying was obviously not telling the truth and she probably didn't have breakfast at all.

"It's okay, I'm done eating." Zhao Ying noticed Li Xu's gaze, her face flushed and she felt a little embarrassed.

"Okay, let's go." Li Xu smiled and walked out first.

The two went out together. Outside, Li Xu put on his tweed coat and took the elevator to the underground parking lot with Zhao Ying.

When they reached the place where the Mercedes-Benz E300 was parked, Zhao Ying hurried forward and helped Li Xu open the back door.

After Li Xu got in the car, she sat in the driver's seat, started the car, left the parking lot, and drove towards Gulou District.

Li Xu sat in the back seat of the car, watching Zhao Ying driving the car carefully in the front seat, and nodded secretly in his heart.

Although Zhao Ying didn't have much driving experience, she drove very steadily, without any of the flustered driving habits of a novice.

The biggest problem for female drivers is that they easily panic when encountering problems, and the more panicked they are, the more likely they are to make mistakes.

Half an hour later, the Mercedes-Benz E300 arrived at Gulou District and drove into the underground parking lot of the Council Building.

After parking the car, Zhao Ying unbuckled her seatbelt and got out. Just as she was about to help Li Xu open the door, Li Xu opened the door first and got out of the car, saying to her:
"Xiaoying, you don't have to go up with me. Drive back. I'll call you if I need a car."

"Brother Xu, why don't I wait for you in the car? That way I'll be able to arrive in time if anything happens." Zhao Ying said.

"That's fine." Li Xu looked at her with a smile and nodded.

After watching Li Xu walk into the elevator, Zhao Ying returned to the car, took out a copy of "Principles of Accounting" from under the driver's seat, opened it and started reading.

She applied for the self-taught college degree in accounting at the University of Finance and Economics. In fact, she and Liu Xin could barely be considered classmates.

Li Xu took the elevator to the 10th floor of the building, walked to the office of Zhangyou Technology, pushed the door and walked in.

In the office, three men and one woman were sitting together chatting about something. When they saw Li Xu coming, a male employee in his twenties stood up and said:
"Mr. Li, you're here!"

Immediately afterwards, the other two men and one woman also stood up, "Mr. Li!"

Li Xu smiled and nodded to them, "Everyone, please feel free to continue with your work."

The male employee, who is about 27 or 28 years old, is called Chen Yuhui. He is a programmer and has worked in a medium-sized game company for more than three years. His ability is average, but he has rich experience.

The other three people were a twenty-five or twenty-six-year-old boy named Shi Lidong, who was a game planner, and a twenty-two or twenty-three-year-old boy named Jiang Tao, who was also a programmer, but had just graduated for half a year and did not have much experience.

The last one is a girl in her twenties named Wu Huiling, who works as a game artist.

The common characteristics of these four people are that they have ordinary academic qualifications and their abilities are not outstanding.

After all, people who graduated from prestigious universities and have strong working abilities would not choose a newly established small company like Zhangyou Technology.

Li Xu came to his office area, took off his coat, hung it on the hanger, and then sat down at his desk.

The 70-square-meter office he rented was a large open space, which was divided into two rooms after simple decoration.

The inner room is less than 20 square meters and is the office of manager Li Xu. The outer room is 50 square meters and is the staff office area.

The office has only been rented for two days and the office equipment is not yet fully equipped. There are only basic equipment such as office chairs and water dispensers, and there is not even an office computer.

It’s not that Li Xu doesn’t want to buy a computer, but he is not quite sure what kind of computer configuration is needed to develop games, and he needs to discuss it with professionals such as Chen Yuhui and Jiang Tao.

After sitting for a while, Li Xu stood up and walked to the outer room. He clapped his hands and said to Chen Yuhui and others, "Everyone come here. Let's have a meeting first."

Since there was no meeting room, Li Xu and Chen Yuhui and the other three sat together and held the first meeting since the establishment of the company.

Li Xu did not talk about the company's prospects and goals, but painted a rosy picture for Chen Yuhui and others.

There is no point in talking about this now. No one would be optimistic about the prospects of a newly established small company whose boss is still a student.

He just said that the company’s most important task at the moment is to develop the two mini-games “Temple Run” and “Fruit Ninja” as soon as possible.

Let them refer to some popular mobile games in Europe and the United States to prepare for the development of these two games.

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(End of this chapter)